Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Nov 26, 2010, at 2:11 PM, kmedcalf () dessus com wrote:

> > > > Cisco's expression of a MAC address is wrong anyway. Correct notation
> > > > for a MAC address is separating each byte with a colon.
>
> > > Doesn't matter... It's widespread and Cisco isn't the only one to use it.
>
> > Just for my own edification, who else besides Cisco do you know who
> > uses that notation for MAC addresses? I want some convincing before
> > I'll accept the claim that it's widespread.
>
> Windows displays macs as dash separated hexified bytes (ie, 12-34-56-78-90-AB) which is incorrect.
>
> Given how widespread and pervasive the Microsoft Windows Virus is, I'd call this widespread and pervasive.
Windows is not a virus. Viruses are tight, well written pieces of code with a specific (usually nefarious)
purpose.

While windows certainly qualifies as nefarious, I doubt anyone would consider it tight or well written
code.

Owen